Custom Hands AutoRig currently disabled

[mvanniekerk19]

Hi,

I have tried to follow Auto-Rigging guide for the Unity SDK but quickly realized that its, "...currently disabled due to propagating non-undo-able changes to the editor".

I have tried to make use of the Rigged Hand Script along with the LoPoly_Rigged_Hand_Right model to try and figure out how I would go about it, but even using the built in models I cant get the hand model to function.

Could someone point me in the right direction for how I should go about implementing a rigged hand?

[dankirby]

I have looked into this and auto rigging was disabled as it had the potential to cause more harm than good within a project. Effectively it was destroying data at edit-time in a way that could not be undone from within the editor.

To resolve this correctly autorigging would need to be reworked before it could be reintroduced. Unfortunately that does mean that currently the only way to rig hands right now is manually.

We are looking into this at the moment to identify the best way to provide you with hand rigging support and I will keep you posted with any updates.

[mvanniekerk19]

Thank you for your reply

I'll keep an eye out for updates

[diegorr]

Auto rigging is the only reason we bought the hardware, and now it is not supported? Documentation clearly says it is, but nothing works. Where do I download the version that works?

[Higasho]

Auto rigging saved a bunch of time; manual is so slow and tedious. Hope this gets fixed before 2021.

[bilboswaggins84]

Please update the documentation on this! I just got my Leap today in the hopes of using auto rig. When it didn't work, I was kind of miffed when I found the code was just commented out. Are there any docs out there on manually setting up a hand rig?

[dankirby]

Please follow the steps below to manually rig hands and get your hand assets up and running.

This process takes approximately 1 hour to complete, including roughly 20-30 minutes per hand to copy the components to the new hand.

1. Import an existing Leap Motion hand (such as lopolyhand) into Maya
2. Bind your new mesh to the armature
3. Export this as an fbx file
4. Import it to Unity
5. Open a new scene in Unity
6. Add the original Leap Motion hand and the new exported hand
7. Copy every component from the original leap hand to the new leap hand (see images below for reference)
   Important note: If you add the components from the drop-down menu, instead of copying, then the hand will not work.
8. Update the references for each component
9. Update the entire joint list
10. Assign the new hand to the leap model manager and test!

If anyone wishes to write a script that automates part of this process we would encourage you to do so and contribute your script to our Unity Modules on GitHub here.

[bilboswaggins84]

Hey, thanks for the info! I'm still pretty new to Unity development, but I may see if I can figure out a script for this. If I do I'll be sure to upload it to the GitHub.

[dankirby]

We have also made a short video that gives a quick overview of this process and what you need to do.

You can download the video from here or watch it on YouTube here, please let us know how you get on!